The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-08

f. r. Jenne of Brattleboro.
THE house of William Rogers of Troy
was struck by lightning recently. Mrs.
| Rogers was sitting in chair with pair of
scissors in her lap, which attracted the cleo
| trio fluid so that 1t played around in her lap
and in her clothing. 1t then left, going to an
infant son who was near, burning his feet to
a blister, and thence to the cellar, where 1t
disappeared. Mrs. Rogers reason was de-
| throned, and when she gained conscious
ness she found herself lying in the road in
| the rain She returned to the house barely
in season to save it from destruction by fire.
GEORGE VAN DYKE, the lumber king of
| New England, is coming down the Con-
necticut river with more than W,OOOOOO feet
| of spruce lumber, a much larger quantity
| than he or any other person has ever before
| driven down in one season. The rear OF the
drive was within a few miles of McIndoe's
Falls last Thursday on what is known as the
ffteen-mle falls. With the present pitch of
water the logs will pass that place within
! ten days, nearly a month earlier than usual.
! To perform the labor in getting this i'm
| mense amount of lumber down requires the
services of over 600 hardy men and eighty
| horses, at an expense of more than $1,000
per day. Mr.. Van Dyke not only superin-
tends and looks after this drive, but is run
ming at the present time four mills that are
cutting out about 100000 feet of lumber
every working day.
port National Bank and an artist of some
repute, found on opening his studio Friday,
| that the place had been entered by vandals,
who had cut his best pictures in strips,
daubed his furniture with paint and other
| wise ruined the interior The incident has
| attracted much attention, because of late
| Mr. Dorman has received numerous letters
warning him that unless he broke off his
engagement to Miss Myrtle Nye, daughter
of Captain Nye, the express agent, and un-
less he published the fact in the local paper,
his fate would be sure and terrible. These
letters have been sent to Mr.. Dorman by
mail, have been tucked under his front
door, thrown over the fence and sent by
messengers in such numbers that he has be-
come very nervous. Miss Nye has received
! similar letters, and the couple believe a
Jealous rival of Dorman is responsible for
| them.
A BELLOWS FALLS dispatch announces
the arrest of Bob Fitton, formerly of Caven-
dish, who is wanted for perjury, forgery
and contempt of court in Windsor county,
to say nothing of being suspected as fire.
bug. Insurance companies have for many
years had a wholesome dread of him, as he
recently testified before the United States
court that nine different buildings owned
by himself or members of his family had
been burned within a few years, and a care.
full estimate of the amounts of insurance
paid under these fires placed the amount al
between $4,000 and 100000 For years
insurance companies have refused to insure
him or any member of his family, but by
strategy and in various ways he succeeds in
getting it and the property burns. A mum
Der of these fires have been in wooden mills
and storehouses and the insurance is il
large amounts. The latest one was the
Cambridgeport wooden mill August %, 1888
In General.
SMALLPOX is spreading in Cuba.
urn MS nf "
is dead
MORE than 600 bears were killed in Maine
last year.
GOVERNOR HILL has vetoed the Veddel
liquor-tax bill
FOURTEEN bandits have been killed by
Mexican soldiers.
Mr.. BLAINE is in New York, and will sal
for Europe to-day.
WHITELAw REID of the Tribune is recov
ering from typhoid fever
EIGHT men were killed by dynamite ex
plosion near Altoona, Pa.
PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL cathedral il
to be erected in New York.
THE managers of gift tea company il
Boston have been arrested.
THE President has been having fair lucl
fishing in the Adirondacks
Missouri liquor-dealers are to be expelled
from the Masonic fraternity.
THE Sultan of Turkey has coded the
Island of Cyprus to England.
PROFESSOR WAGNER, the African traveller
committed suicide at Munich.
QUEEN KAPIoLANI and suite arrived a
Liverpool last week Thursday.
THE decrease in the national debt durin
the month of May was $685. 1907 IS.
A VIENNA newspaper mentions a projec
\ | TO Ia thn ~ oft oIn,,
SEVEN persons, including the groom, wer
. killed in a row at a Mexican wedding.
= EX-PREsIDENT HAYES attended the funera
of eX-Vice-president Wheeler yesterday.
The story of proposed transcontnenta
trip by the President lacks confirmation.
A SLIGHT shock of earthquake has revive
: the fears of inhabitants of Columbia, S. c.
: REV. DIR. LoRIMER of Chicago has bee
called to a Baptist church in Washington
> THE Canadian government wants new
! fishery treaty with three-mile limit clause
GREAT anxiety is felt for safety of dyke
r.. in Austro-Hungary on account of the flood
THE steamboat "Queen City was total
destroyed by fire at New Orleans. Los
: $4,000.
2 GENERAL JAMES S. SPEED President Lii
2 coins Encouragement, is dying near Louis
e vile, Ky.
e Hon. CHAUNcY f. CLEVELAND, for man
! years the oldest ex-governor of Connection
died Monday.
, The town of Oberlin, o., was suddenl
Il inundated by a coud-burst The damage
y nearly $4,000.
n THOSE who have trade-dollars should di
q pose of them before September 3, when r,
. demption ceases.
y The decrease of the national debt for til
o fiscal year ending June 30 is expected to |
about S100,000000.
a IT is stated that the President will retur
t, to Washington Thursday by the same rout
k travelled in coming.
d TREASURE to the amount of 5000 OK
!; pounds sterling has been found secreted
q palace in Morocco
Il The American Tract Society in annu
i meeting resolved TO separate its busine
Il and missionary departments.
e THE general assembly of the United Pre-
e byterian Church has declared in favor
the use of the organ in church.
d FRIGHTFUL scenes are taking place
20 Bodyke, Ireland, where evictions are beiI
S, continued under great difficulties.
g, THE steamer Sir John Lawrence " VIZ
ol lost in the recent cyclone in the India
N ocean, with $50 native passengers.
u l.. ID. PARENT, a young cashier of Hocht
N aga Bank, Montreal, has absconded and
~ defaulter to the extent of $4,000.
# THOMAS SPENCER BAYNEs, the well-knOv
in professor of logic and one of the editors
at the Encyclopedia Britannica, is dead.